Posted on 11/23/2017 8:44:28 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
No sooner had it become a national holiday than America’s Jews took to its growing repertoire of rituals with gusto. Thanksgiving was a day in which “all classes and masses participated and delivered the same Yankee Doodle with slight variations,” observed one San Francisco Jew in 1884. Much like their neighbors, America’s Jewish citizens prepared a sumptuous repast at home and saw to it that the underprivileged among them, especially those of their coreligionists in orphanages and old-age homes, were treated to a turkey with all the trimmings. [snip]
Focusing on what they had in common rather than on the “doctrinal points” that kept them apart and at arm’s length from one another, America’s clergy and congregants alike seized the opportunity to strengthen the bonds of neighborliness and to “set the seal of religion upon [their] patriotic emotions.” In the process, they also sought to demonstrate that the “national religion is not Christianity—but whatever each American professes for himself,” or so optimistically related the Jewish Messenger in 1873. [snip]
Divine services and official proclamations were one thing; festive meals quite another. When it came to feeding one’s stomach on national turkey day, there was no declension, no “backsliders here—full attendance everywhere.” Even the most scrupulous of kosher-keeping American Jews could enjoy a heaping portion of turkey and spoonfuls of cranberry sauce, the recipes for which filled the pages of Jewish newspapers of the late 19th century. True, mashed potatoes might be out of bounds because of the cream and butter used to make them fluffy, and oyster stuffing was clearly a no-go, but tasty substitutes that in no way compromised the traditional bill of fare were at hand and within easy reach on the dinner table.
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Wishing all of you, of whatever faith, a joyous Thanksgiving.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I know latkes are traditionally for Hanukkah, but that’s my favorite Jewish dish ;-)
MMMmmmmm... and cranberry sauce shaped like a can...
That, and go out for Chinese food.
“Sh’ma Yisrael....”
Jews have mastered assimilation without assimilating, and without hyphenating.
Potatoes don’t have to be mashed. Baked potatoes are nice are nice.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well.
Tonight we had wonderful mashed potatoes with all the other traditional foods, and kosher as anything, with vegan sour cream, vegan cream cheese, and olive oil in them. Super yum and we could put real turkey gravy on them!
True, mashed potatoes might be out of bounds because of the cream and butter used to make them fluffy,
#5. That’s for Christmas!
Presuming you were eating them with turkey, you’d be mixing heated meat and dairy.
cream and butter are fine in mashed potatoes - until you think of putting on a plate with turkey, mixing dairy and meat. therein lies the problem. not kosher. now you can eat one or the other - but not together.
“now you can eat one or the other - but not together.”
What if they were on two separate plates?
you can’t eat them together at the same meal - must separate meat meal from dairy meal by a number of hours.
Man, that’s just cruel!
Does that include no coffee with creamer at turkey dinner time?
it’s not cruel! it is what you are used to. re coffee with creamer, this is why non-dairy substitutes were created and there are lots of them. no cow’s milk or cream in the coffee with turkey dinner. and.....no real whipped cream on that pumpkin pie or ice cream/cheese on that apple pie either - unless you eat dessert hours later, separate from turkey/meat dinner.
No cow’s milk. How about goat’s milk?
any animal milk. okay to use rice milk, almond milk, etc. comes from Bible injunction not to boil a kid in its mother’s milk - in Deuteronomy, i think.
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